{"id":3369,"date":"2008-09-24T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:47:38","slug":"michellie-jones-ironman-hopes-dashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"Michellie Jones&#8217; Ironman Hopes Dashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/w-win-crp.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/w-win-crp.jpg','popup','width=444,height=706,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/w-win-crp-tm.jpg\" height=\"318\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"W-Win-Crp\" \/><\/a><em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> best hope for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ironman.com\/worldchampionship\" target=\"_blank\">Ironman World Championship <\/a><\/strong>Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on October 11, 2008 has withdrawn from the competition after &#8220;suffering a slight tear in her right calf&#8221; on Sunday, according to a story in the <strong><em>San Diego Union-Tribune<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jones, winner of the 2006 Ironman Hawaii, suffered the injury while running the half marathon at the Ironman 70.3 Cancun (Mexico). Jones had recorded the race&#8217;s fastest 56-mile bike split. . . . \u201cOne of the things that I learned from my disastrous defense of my Ironman World Championship title last year in Kona is that the Hawaiian Ironman is not a place to be unless you are 100 percent,\u201d Jones said in a statement. \u201cI am really looking forward to coming back to Kona in 2009 with a vengeance. I am extremely disappointed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re bummed for Michellie and for triathlon fans everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20080923-9999-1s23breakout.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s best hope for the Ironman World Championship Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on October 11, 2008 has withdrawn from the competition after &#8220;suffering a slight tear in her right calf&#8221; on Sunday, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Jones, winner of the 2006 Ironman Hawaii, suffered the injury while running the half marathon at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}